دانلود کتاب German and United States Second World War Military Cemeteries in Italy: Cultural Perspectives: 8

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Cover
Contents
Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Author’s Preface
Introduction
I. US Organizing for Remembrance
The Players
The Situation in Italy
The Siting Process
Site Acquisition at Anzio/Nettuno
Site Acquisition at Impruneta
II. Germany Organizing for Remembrance: Post-WW II VDK’s Mission
The VDK Resumes its Work
Evolving New Moral Principles
New Design Guidelines
Robert Tischler, Architect
Tischler’s Work in Mussolini’s Italy: Fascist Theatrics in Stone
Quero: A Totenburg in Modernist Form
Pordoi: A Totenburg in the Dolomites
Pinzano: Fascist Megalomania
III. Anzio/Nettuno: Space of Triumph
The ABMC’s Anzio/Nettuno
Harbeson’s Hunger for Land
Eric Gugler, Architect
Gugler’s Anzio Design: A Vision of Grandeur
Gugler’s Design
Gugler’s Romantic Design Impulses
Ralph Griswold’s “American Space”
Gardens of Respite from Death
The Saga of the Lone Pine
Transcending the Classicist Model
IV. The Best of American Art? Paul Manship and his Sculptures at Anzio/Nettuno
Denial of Death’s Sting
Reaching to the Heavens: The Chapel
The Celestial Ceiling. Victory Eternalized in the Stars
The Glory of the Armed Forces
A Legacy to Civilization: The Statue of Orpheus
Gugler’s (Unrealized) Monumental Dreams
Hall of History
“Shrine to Freedom”
V. Impruneta, American Modern Classicism: Grandeur and Intimacy
Designing Impruneta’s Memorial: A Labor of Love and Dedication
Evolving Design of the Memorial
The Pylon, Object of Controversy
Quest for the Perfect Form
Michael Rapuano’s Brilliant Contribution
VI. Impruneta’s Patriotic Embellishment: Message and “Beauty”
Barry Faulkner, Mosaicist
Sidney Waugh, Sculptor
Inscriptions: Herolds of Ideology
A Slap on the Wrist. Riparian Rights: A Lesson in Manners
VII. Sic Transit Gloria
Critics Pan ABMC’s Projects
Marshall and Eisenhower Come to the Defense
Fault Lines Outdate the Cemeteries
VIII. Robert Tischler’s Continued Hegemony in Italy: Continuity and Change
Pomezia: Italy’s Gift to Germany
Costermano: Modesty and Mourning
Cassino Crypt Design: Tischler’s Fallback
IX. Cassino/Caira: Between Tradition and Innovation
Tischler’s Design
Sculpture and its Message
The Cemetery’s Grave Area
No Hilltop Monument
X. The Futa Pass: New Form Makes an Appropriate Statement
The VDK’s Search for New Talent
A Radical Departure?
Commission and Construction
Form is the Message
Helmut Lander’s Mosaic. The Power of Abstraction
Fritz Kühn’s Crown of Thorns. Suffering in Steel and Iron
From Windswept Wilderness to the Mountain of the Dead
Landscape Design: Landscape Architect Walter Rossow and Horticulturist Helmut Bournot
Mass Death Visualized
Fields of Graves
The Planting Design
XI. The Futa Pass Cemetery: An Exoneration of Weimar Republic’s “Aberrant Art?”
Creation of an Architectural Style. The Modern from Tradition
Postlude: The Reception of the Futa Pass Cemetery by the Press
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Archives
Books and Journals